Liz Wilson

Liz Wilson is a College Fellow in psychology. She graduated from St. Olaf College with a B.A. in psychology and later earned her Ph.D. in social/personality psychology from the University of California, Riverside. Her research seeks to understand intergroup bias – what it predicts, how it varies across people and places, and the contributing role of multiple, distinct cognitive processes. She approaches these questions at varying levels of analysis: at the individual level, she relies on mathematical models to formalize the cognitive processes underlying implicit social cognition; at the regional level, she examines correlates of region-level bias and explore how cultural norms relate to ideologies, values, traits, cognitions, and attitudes.